*** We will hold it at L&B’s outside, if the weather is bad, we will be inside.

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It’s Summer, time to get out of the house and join your fellow HAMs, get on the air, meet up with some old friends and make new ones!

List of the summer events club members are participating in:

- The Great Solar Eclipse took place on Monday, August 21, 2017. It was a great day, excellent

weather, and all the bands were very active!!!. The “Eclipse-Mob”, low-frequency radio wave

propagation experiment worked very well. I was able to collect over 2 hours of data before the

batteries failed.

News Updates:

September 13, I will be doing a special event station from Governors Island using portable equipment. We will have a station set up on 20M or 40M depending on band conditions. I will try to monitor the KC2RA repeater. I hope to be operating from sometime after 11:00 am until 3:30 pm.

This month the KCRA Executive Board is open for nominations from the full members, and shall close with the October membership meeting. At the time of this writing, all board members are running.

We are looking in to doing a free HAM Technician (2) day weekend class and test, probably in November. We have always gotten a great response from the participants of the hands-on class, and will be doing this class again this winter. The class will be open to ALL, and is free, including the testing!!

The IRLP & D-Star server needs a new location, with free access to the internet.

The KC2RA 2M club repeater has been up and running very well for the past several months without any issues. I am looking for some help getting the “Club”-net back on the air. A good time for me to run the net is after 09:00 PM. Topics will be HAM and PC related... tips-tricks-antennas, some crazy distance doing QRP... maybe some Morse code...

Become Radioactive! Come to the KCRA meetings! Learn something, participating in our Hands-On-Labs! The CLUB needs your support at our monthly meetings! If you have any ideas that pertain to amateur radio, we would like to hear from you.

Protect the Amateur Radio bands from commercial use! Join the ARRL!!

Remember, it’s hurricane season, be prepared!

Have a Great Summer!! Hope to see YOU in the fall... Batteries charged?

The KCRA Website will be going through a series of updates that should make browsing the site easier for members. We will try to complete these updates as quickly as possible. Please pardon our appearance while this maintenance is completed. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

I am pleased to report that our club website is not suspect to the vulnerability known as the Heartbleed Bug. Then again you probably never knew our site was sucurely accessible via SSL (for the NSA parinoid out there), give it a try: https://www.kc2ra.org

Repeater improvements galore! This extensive, multi-year refurbishment plan to both our 2m analog and 70cm D-Star systems are nearing completion. Once complete, both repeaters will consist of completely new (NOT used) flexible and modern equipment that should last many, many years, at a cost of many thousands of dollars, and much hard work.

Let’s not forget the cost of insuring this equipment, our liability insurance, activates such as Field Day, Light House Weekend, Elmer 101, Hands on Labs, our regular meeting activities, and the donations we make to retain our meeting facility.

Of course this is not a complete list of what the club does, but as you can see, we stretch every dollar as far as possible.

If you’re not already a member, or have not renewed, please consider doing so today!

The Big Apple Traffic Net can once again be heard on the KC2RA repeater system!

The net is held each Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 8:00 PM. The repeater will automatically join the appropriate IRLP reflector at 7:45PM, and will automatically disconnect at 8:45 PM, the net may also be heard on the following repeaters: KC2LEB (440.550, +5, PL 141.3). KC2GOW (445.125, -5, PL 141.3), K2CJP (145.410, -.6, PL 114.8), and of course KC2RA (146.430, +1, PL 136.5). Echolink access to the net is via node 132967 (KC2LEB/R).

If you would like to participate as a net control operator, or for more information on the Big Apple Traffic Net, please visit WWW.BIGAPPLETRAFFICNET.ORG.